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the demands of humanity would be considered 

 also, for it is indeed very shocking that there 

 should be a war in the nineteenth century, which, 

 in its honors, exceeds the Mongol invasion in the 

 thirteenth century. And the protection of the 

 Eastern Christians would also be vouchsafed, 

 without crippling the integrity and independence 

 of the Turkish Empire or the dignity of the state. 

 These results, which can be attained thus, but 

 only thus, would secure the weight, the authority, 

 the splendor, and the fame of our monarchy in the 

 highest degree. 



I have only tried to show the political bear- 

 ings, not to lay down precise schemes of action. 

 I feel convinced that the looming danger can 

 only be averted from our country and from the 

 monarchy by a policy having the above-named 

 tendency. 



And it is certain that, with such a tendency, 

 the Government could securely count on the self- 

 sacrificing readiness of the entire Hungarian 

 people without exception of party. 



And why does not the Government attempt 

 it ? Such a chance is very rare. Why not use 

 it ? These circumstances open up to Count Julius 

 Andrassy the opportunity of covering himself 

 with great and lasting glory. He can become the 

 savior of his fatherland, of the monarchy, of the 

 reigning dynasty, if he will understand the work 

 of the hour. He will be their grave-digger if he 

 does not do it, or if he dares not do it. 



What hinders him from doing it ? 



I hear Prussia mentioned. Yes, ten years 

 ago the nation was frightened into the delegations 

 by the Russian hobgoblin, and now she is like to 

 be driven into the arms of Russia by the terror 

 of Prussia. 



I will not deny the Russian inclinations of the 

 Berlin cabinet. The personal leanings of the 

 Emperor William have a share in this, possessing 

 undoubtedly great weight in the decision of the 

 Berlin policy. And the false position of Germany 

 has also a share therein, into which false position 

 she has been thrown by the conquest of Alsace 

 and Lorraine, which seems even to push into the 

 background a consideration which should never 

 be lost sight of by Germany, at present the first 

 power of Europe. This consideration is that 

 every increase of the Russian power must neces- 

 sarily compromise the primatial position of the 

 German Empire in Europe ; and that, in the last 

 analysis — against which personal inclinations 

 struggle in vain — it may lead to a collision be- 

 tween the German and Slavonian races, the like 

 of which has not yet been witnessed by the world. 



Rome and Carthage cannot exist side by side 

 for long. 



But, however strong the present inclinations 

 of the Berlin cabinet may be, they cannot go so 

 far as to compel Prussia to take Russia for her 

 patron, and become the client of the latter. And, 

 in the last resort, the German Imperial policy has 

 to reckon with the other German princes and 

 with the German nation ; and among the former, 

 as well as in the ranks of the latter, there are 

 those who recollect Russian patronage and the 

 significance of clientship for Germany under Rus- 

 sian rule. And those who recollect this would 

 soon warn the Berlin cabinet that German blood 

 belongs to Germany, and not to the Russians. 



The knowledge of the logic of history, which 

 I have acquired by long study and painstaking 

 (and the cares that whitened my hair have their 

 own tale to tell), and, at last, experience, have 

 taught me that the German Emperor might give 

 advice in the shape of Russian inspirations, but 

 that, whatever be the policy of the Vienna cabi- 

 net in the Eastern question, it is certain that, to 

 favor Russia, the German Empire will never de- 

 clare war against the Austro-Hungarian mon- 

 archy. 



I take all that they say about Prussian threats 

 for mere claptrap, originating from yonder cam- 

 arilla, that strives — and, alas ! strives with great 

 effect — that the Vienna cabinet should do the 

 same things in aid of the aggressive Russian policy 

 against Turkey that it did against Roland, when 

 Russia undertook to annihilate the independence of 

 that unhappy country, and for the same end — viz., 

 that she should become a sharer in the robbery, in- 

 stead of allying herself with Turkey, as she ought 

 to have done with the Poles, to frustrate the rob- 

 bery. 



This is the danger which I see, like a death- 

 prophesying bird, with outstretched wings, flut- 

 tering over my country ; and my patriotism stim- 

 ulates me to call to mind other things in connec- 

 tion with certain premonitory reflections on the 

 rising manifestations of public opinion. 



I repeat that the important point for the 

 Hungarian nation in this question is this : that 

 by the war which rages in our neighborhood the 

 vital interests of our fatherland, as well as those 

 of Austria, are jeopardized. 



I place weight on the fact that at present the 

 vital interests of Austria are in harmony with 

 our vital interests. 



My views on the subject of the connection be- 

 tween Austria and Hungary are known. These 



